Diabetes And Chronic Limb Ischaemia And Revascularization

The confluence of several chronic conditions--in particular ageing, peripheral artery disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease--has created a global wave of lower limbs at risk for major amputation. While frequently asymptomatic or not lifestyle limiting, at least 1% of the population has peripheral artery disease of sufficient severity to be limb threatening. To avoid the critical error of failing to diagnose ischaemia, all patients with diabetic foot ulcers and gangrene should routinely undergo physiologic evaluation of foot perfusion...

AIMS: Only few and historic studies reported a bad prognosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and critical limb ischaemia (CLI). The contemporary state of treatment and outcomes should be assessed. METHODS AND RESULTS: From the largest public health insurance in Germany, all in- and outpatient diagnosis and procedural data were retrospectively obtained from a cohort of 41 882 patients hospitalized due to PAD during 2009-2011, including a follow-up until 2013...

The study was aimed at assessing remote results of endovascular treatment of patients presenting with lower limb critical ischaemia (LLCI) and kept on chronic haemodialysis. We retrospectively analysed the results of endovascular interventions in a total of 16 patients with ischaemic defects of the foot being on chronic haemodialysis, performed from 2001 to 2012 at the Department of Roentgenosurgical Methods of Diagnosis and Treatment of the St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute for Emergency Ambulance Care named after I...

INTRODUCTION: Long-term antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel has been recommended in patients undergoing peripheral arterial procedures. Poor antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel or high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity (HCPR) has been recently identified in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). AREAS COVERED: This review focuses on the use of clopidogrel and the phenomenon of HCPR in PAD patients treated for intermittent claudication or critical limb ischaemia (CLI)...

Currently, there is a tendency towards an increase in the incidence rate of cardiovascular disease. According to the data of the World Health Organization the incidence rate of obliterating diseases of peripheral arteries varies from 5 to 10%. Diseases of peripheral arteries manifest themselves by such a severe condition as lower-limb critical ischaemia. Most often lower-limb chronic critical ischaemia develops in patients with multi-level lesions of the arterial bed. Treatment of such patients constitutes a serious problem since it requires large-scope revascularization...

Analysed herein are the results of the joint work of the Pyoseptic Surgery Department of the Centre "Diabetic Foot" with the Vascular Surgery Department based in various clinics over 2 periods - 2010 and 2011. During the first period, a total of 126 patients with critical ischaemia were treated without using revascularizing methods, during the second period, a total of 205 patients with critical ischaemia were examined by vascular surgeons deciding upon the problem concerning possibility of revascularization...

UNLABELLED: Limb ischaemia caused by formation of dialysis fistula is rare but serious complication. The severity of symptoms may vary but rest pains and necrotic lesions are observed in most advance cases. In these patients different invasive procedures for treatment are performed - from simplest dialysis fistula ligation to complicated vascular reconstructions. The aim of the study was to evaluate treatment results of upper limb ischaemia triggered by dialysis fistula. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We have analysed methods and results of treatment of 14 patients with symptomatic upper limb ischaemia caused by dialysis fistula treated in our department between 1st January, 2006 and 30th June, 2013...

Presented in the article is a clinical example of surgical treatment of a patient with a severe course of type 2 diabetes mellitus, multiple lesions of coronary arteries, lower-limb arteries with the development of lower-limb ischaemia, bilateral lesions of renal arteries and chronic renal insufficiency, the presence of an aneurysm of the infrarenal portion of the aorta. The unique nature of the case report consists in joint work of endocrinologists, cardiologists, specialists in purulent surgery and reoentgenovascular surgeons, also in carrying out simultaneous endovascular reconstructive operation on various vascular basins: stenting of the right renal artery, balloon angioplasty and stenting of the left leg arteries and endovascular prosthetic repair of the abdominal aortic aneurysm...

Despite numerous attempts, chronic critical limb ischaemia (CLI) has not been unequivocally defined as yet. Its epidemiology is poorly investigated and its prevalence probably higher than anticipated. It is accompanied by high mortality and morbidity irrespective of the way it is treated. Its management is very expensive. Additionally, the prevailing diabetes epidemic is increasing the need for revascularizations although there is a clear lack of evidence as to when to revascularize an ulcerated diabetic foot...

BACKGROUND: To investigate whether the indication for the first revascularization (diabetic foot, acute ischaemia, aneurysmal disease, chronic occlusive disease) determines the surgical history and survival time in amputated limbs. METHODS: The surgical history of lower extremities amputated between 2002 and 2009 was reviewed for the number of (endo)vascular procedures, minor amputations, wound debridements, complications requiring surgery (acute ischaemia, bleeding, graft infection) and limb survival time (LST)...

Peripheral arterial disease is common among diabetic patients with renal insufficiency, and most of the diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have peripheral arterial disease. Ischaemia is probably overrepresented as an etiological factor for a diabetic foot ulcer in this group of patients compared with other diabetic patients. ESRD is a strong risk factor for both ulceration and amputation in diabetic patients. It increases the risk of nonhealing of ulcers and major amputation with an OR of 2...

The article deals with diabetic foot syndrome defined as a multidisciplinary problem. A reconstructive vascular operation in critical ischaemia on the background of diabetic foot syndrome is herein shown to be an efficient and justified intervention. Revascularization makes it possible to carry out sparing resections on the foot, to appropriately cope with the events of lower-limb critical ischaemia, and to reliably decrease the rate of high amputations.

Larval therapy (LT) is known to be a gentle and effective method for removing necrotic tissue and bacteria and reducing the accompanying unpleasant odour. Ischaemia has been considered a relative contraindication for LT. We report a patient with ischaemia treated with LT. Inguinal revascularization was performed on a 69-year-old man with critical limb ischaemia, diabetes mellitus, heart failure and end-stage renal disease. Areas of dry black malodorous gangrene remained on the distal areas of the feet after surgery and the patient's poor health did not allow any additional surgery...

Critical limb ischaemia (CLI) is a manifestation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) that describes patients with chronic ischaemic rest pain, or patients with ischaemic skin lesions, either ulcers or gangrene. The clinical diagnosis of CLI should be confirmed by haemodynamic parameters such as the ankle- or toe systolic pressure. The estimated annual incidence of CLI ranges between 500 and 1 000 new cases per 1 million, with diabetes being the most important risk factor. CLI is also a marker for mostly generalized and severe atherosclerosis, and therefore the prognosis of patients is poor concerning overall survival...

BACKGROUND: Major limbs loss and high mortality rate were observed in the management of Thai patients with atherosclerosis obliterans (ASO) of the lower extremities. These were the results of delayed diagnosis and treatment together with the associated morbidities. There is a lack of information of this disease resulting in a lack of knowledge and awareness of this problem among general practitioners in Thailand. OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the prevalence of this disease in a tertiary care hospital, (2) to enumerate the risk factors and comorbidities, (3) to identify clinical characteristics of the disease and (4) to evaluate the outcomes of treatment...

Diabetic foot syndrome in patients with atherosclerotic angiopathy of the crural arteries frequently develops in critical ischaemia and gangrene. Revascularization then may be the only approach to limb salvage. In the ongoing decade, pedal bypass grafting has become the method of choice for treatment of the most severe forms of chronic critical leg ischaemia caused by obliteration of the crural arteries. However, in patients in whom angiographic findings are favourable (short stenosis of the crural artery and the presence of suitable distal outflow arteries), percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), with stent placement, if indicated, is preferred...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The purpose of this clinical study was to assess the success of infrainguinal revascularization in the treatment of lower limb ischaemia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 226 consecutive patients underwent 263 femoropopliteal (n = 194) or femorodistal (n = 69) bypass operations during 1988-1996 at a university hospital. Records of all patients were reviewed. Late control visits including clinical and colour doppler ultrasound examinations were programmed for 109 patients...

Lower limb amputation is performed predominantly to alleviate acute and chronic limb ischaemia caused by vascular disease, poorly controlled diabetes or, occasionally, infection. Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of chronic arterial ischaemia and the most common reason for amputation. The vascular nurse has an important role in reducing the need for amputation, by providing information on health promotion and illness prevention to patients with vascular insufficiency to halt progression to amputation. This is the first of four articles focusing on lower limb amputation...

Over a 17-year period, 2930 vascular procedures were performed for chronic lower-limb occlusive disease. During this time, the total vascular surgical workload rose significantly as a result of an increase in the rates of arterial reconstruction and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. Although the major lower-limb amputation rate did not change significantly, there was a decrease in the above- to below-knee ratio. In addition, there were significant increases in the percentage of patients treated over the age of 75 years and the proportion of attempted revascularizations before amputation...

The results of the revascularizations carried out over a 10-year period for "critical" chronic ischaemia, using the femoropopliteal bypass technique, have been retrospectively analyzed. In all, 600 patients underwent femoro-distal revascularization in 644 limbs, and 695 bypasses were performed. The hospital mortality rate was 4.3 percent. Among these 695 bypasses, postoperative occlusion occurred in 16.5 percent of the cases, and major amputations were necessary in 9.8 percent. The probability of 5-year survival was 47 percent...